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- From: dave.haynie@scala.com (Dave Haynie)
- Subject: Re: AT Surfer Package
- Sender: news@scala.scala.com (Usenet administrator)
- Message-ID: <1996Feb27.195433.10204@scala.scala.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 19:54:33 GMT
- Reply-To: dave.haynie@scala.com (Dave Haynie)
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- In <4gqa1r$p1c@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>, bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie) writes:
- >Michael Metz (mimetz@amiga.de) wrote:
- >: The official prices are:...
-
- >What does DEM stand for? German Mark? Explain the 15% VAT included
- >in the price and how it applies.
-
- VAT is the Value Added Tax, basically a federal sales tax applied in
- most European countries.
-
- >a1200HD (216MB) = $900 CDN, $630 US
- >14.4 modem = $100 CDN, $70 US
- >I-Net225 = $200 CDN, $140 US
-
- >The only comments I would make is that I can buy a new 14.4 modem for
- >$70 CDN (without looking around),
-
- A couple of comments. First of all, if the prices posted are the
- official prices, they're Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Prices. Not
- necessarily what you pay on the street. I can guarantee that if you're
- buying a 14.4kBaud modem that wasn't assembled in someone's garage, it
- will have an official MSRP considerably above the everyday price.
-
- >since the Surf software is mainly shareware the price is all
- >I-Net225, and the a1200 is too expensive for the NA market.
-
- Secondly, if you know where to find cheap modems, how and where to
- download and install the software, than you're not the market this
- package is going for. The idea here is to provide an all-in-one, point
- and click internet access for folks who don't have a clue about the
- internet. In Europe anyway, the Surfer packages come set up to hook
- you into an ISP painlessly. Again, things the everyday
- guy-on-the-street needs, not necessarily anything someone already wise
- in the ways of the internet would want.
-
- Dave Haynie | ex-Commodore Engineering | for DiskSalv 3 &
- Sr. Systems Engineer | Hardwired Media Company | "The Deathbed Vigil"
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